5 UZZI & BILL GRAH’S OLYMPIA BAND- Geisterstunden Cha-Cha

Now we’re delighted to welcome a group of fabulous Jazz legends on stage! In an early stage of their careers, Bill Grah and Ulrich ‘Uzzi’ Förster took a side trip into the weird world of ghost and horror music. Their earliest known non-Jazz effort is a great mash-up-cocktail of groovy exploitation shakers like “Kriminal-Tango” or “The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane”. Written by another genius of Austrian Jazz-music, Dr. Roland Kovac (using his cool Bob Elger pseudonym), the resulting track “Geisterstunden Cha-Cha” is a masterpiece of surrealism. Weird soundscapes and deranged psycho effects mark an early (and completely overlooked) pinnacle of Austrian avantgarde Pop and trash music. Who knows what the deal with the recording studio looked like? By all means it's hard to believe that this 45 was actually pressed and released at the time.